How To Master Your Difficult Feelings To Cultivate Lasting Confidence

We all experience difficult emotions from time to time. Whether it's fear, anxiety, sadness, or anger, these intense feelings can be overwhelming and drain our confidence. However, by mastering our difficult emotions, we can cultivate lasting confidence and live a more fulfilling life.

Understanding Difficult Emotions

Difficult emotions are part of being human. They arise from various sources, such as past experiences, personal beliefs, and external circumstances. Understanding these emotions and their triggers is the first step towards mastering them.

90 Seconds to a Life You Love: How to Master Your Difficult Feelings to Cultivate Lasting Confidence, Resilience, and Authenticity

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It's important to remember that difficult emotions are not inherently bad. They serve as signals that something is not right, offering opportunities for growth and self-discovery. By acknowledging and accepting these emotions, we can begin the process of mastering them.

Exploring Coping Strategies

When faced with difficult emotions, it's crucial to have healthy coping strategies. These strategies help us process and manage our feelings constructively, rather than suppressing or avoiding them.

Some effective coping strategies include:

• Mindfulness and Meditation: Practicing mindfulness and meditation can help us cultivate awareness and acceptance of our emotions, reducing their intensity and allowing us to respond more calmly.
• Journaling: Writing down our thoughts and feelings in a journal can provide a safe space for self-reflection and release, enabling us to gain insights into the underlying causes of our difficult emotions.
• Talking to a Trusted Person: Sharing our feelings with someone we trust can provide support, validation, and perspective, helping us navigate our emotions more effectively.
• Physical Exercise: Engaging in regular physical activity, such as jogging, yoga, or dancing, releases endorphins and reduces stress, promoting emotional well-being.

Changing Our Perspective

Difficult emotions often arise from our perception and interpretation of events. By consciously changing our perspective, we can transform how we respond to these emotions.

A helpful exercise is to challenge negative or self-limiting thoughts associated with difficult emotions. Ask yourself if these thoughts are rational, logical, or constructive. If not, replace them with more positive and empowering thoughts.

Additionally, reframing difficult emotions as opportunities for growth and self-improvement can significantly impact our confidence levels. When we view these emotions as stepping stones towards personal development, we become more resilient, adaptive, and confident in facing life's challenges.

Seeking Professional Help

If you find it challenging to master your difficult emotions on your own, seeking professional help can provide valuable guidance and support. Therapists, counselors, or life coaches specialize in helping individuals navigate their emotions, develop coping strategies, and cultivate lasting confidence.

Remember that seeking professional help is a sign of strength and self-care. It shows that you are committed to your personal growth and well-being.

Mastering difficult feelings is an ongoing journey that requires self-awareness, resilience, and determination. By understanding our emotions, developing healthy coping strategies, changing our perspective, and seeking professional help when needed, we can cultivate lasting confidence and live a more fulfilling life.

90 Seconds to a Life You Love: How to Master Your Difficult Feelings to Cultivate Lasting Confidence, Resilience, and Authenticity

by Dr. Joan Rosenberg (Kindle Edition)

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Learn how to manage your most difficult feelings and build the emotional strength you need to create the life of your dreams.
​Sadness, shame, helplessness, anger, embarrassment, disappointment, frustration, and vulnerability. In 30 years as a practicing psychologist, Dr. Joan Rosenberg has found that what most often blocks people from success and feeling capable in life is the inability to experience, move through, and handle these 8 unpleasant feelings. Knowing how to deal with intense, overwhelming, or uncomfortable feelings is essential to building confidence, emotional strength, and resilience. Yet when we distract or disconnect from these feelings, we move away from confidence, health, and our desired pursuits, ultimately undermining our ability to fully realize our ambitions.

Neuroscientists suggest that the biological lifespan of a feeling, often known first through bodily sensations, lasts approximately 90 seconds. Dr. Rosenberg teaches readers to be aware, consciously lean into, and balance these unpleasant emotions by riding one or more 90-second waves of the bodily sensations. By staying present to these 8 feelings, we cultivate the confidence that we can handle life's challenges and the deep sense we can pursue whatever we want.

Combining more than three decades of clinical experience with aspects of clinical psychology, mindfulness, and neuroscience research, 90 Seconds to a Life You Love is a strategic and practical guide on building core emotional strength, reducing anxiety, and developing the confidence you need to create a life of your design -- a life you love.